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Antarctic life hung by a thread during ice ages

Although the area is covered in ice and bears witness to some of the most extreme cold on the planet, this ecosystem is dynamic, not static, and change here…

Brown expert connects resilience science and marine conservation

Resilience science is the study of how ecosystems resist and respond to disturbances, both natu-ral and man-made. This increasingly influential area of…

Valuing ocean services in the Gulf of Maine — New approaches for conflict resolution

Fogarty, a NOAA biologist, says interactions among species, the effects of climate change, and the effects of human impacts such as harvesting are among the…

Fish devastated by sex-changing chemicals in municipal wastewater

After an exhaustive seven-year research effort, Canadian biologists found that miniscule amounts of estrogen present in municipal wastewater discharges can…

Will North Atlantic threshold response to ocean changes be enough?

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that it is very unlikely that the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC) will…

Scientists reveal first-ever global map of total human effects on oceans

The work, published in the Feb. 15 issue of Science and presented at a press conference Thursday February 14 at 1 pm EST at the American Association for the…

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